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Mit einer Einführung v. Schelsky, Helmut. N.-A.

In den 1930er Jahren, tief im Süden der USA, ist Atticus Finch der Verteidiger eines schwarzen Mannes, der ein weißes Mädchen missbraucht haben soll. Durch die Augen der beiden Kinder von Atticus, Scout und Jem enthüllt Harper Lee mit viel Humor und großem Scharfsinn die irrationalen Einstellungen der Erwachsenenwelt zum Thema Hautfarbe und Klasse der 30er Jahre. Atticus hält einer Stadt der Heuchelei und der Gewalt den Spiegel vor und versucht, für seinen Mandanten das Unmögliche zu erreichen: Gerechtigkeit. Doch Geschichte lässt sich nicht ungehindert beeinflussen.

In a small Pennsylvania town in the late 1940s, schoolteacher George Caldwell yearns to find some meaning in his life. Alone with his teenage son for three days in a blizzard, Caldwell sees his son grow and change as he himself begins to lost touch with his life. Interwoven with the myth of Chiron, the noblest centaur, and his own relationship to Prometheus, The Centaur is one of John Updike's most brilliant and unusual novels.

Reportáž amerického novináře o událostech v Československu od podzimu 1967 do zimy 1970. Exilové vydání. Obálku s použitím obrazu Jaroslava Hovadíka navrhl a grafickou úpravu knihy provedl Mikuláš Kravjanský. Fotografické práce Pavel Řehuřek.

Americký román je odezvou na události v jižních státech USA, které nastaly po zrušení segregace bílých a černých studentů na středních školách. Autor svůj příběh zasazuje do malého jižanského městečka, jehož poklidnou hladinu zčeří příchod mladého fašistického agitátora, kterýse snaží ..

A 16-year old American boy relates in his own words the experiences he goes through at school and after, and reveals with unusual candour the workings of his own mind. What does a boy in his teens think and feel about his teachers, parents, friends and acquaintances?

Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the kings of Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant son with meager subsistence. Then, on a day like any other, Kino emerges from the sea with a pearl as large as a sea gull's egg, as "perfect as the moon." With the pearl comes hope, the promise of comfort and of security.... A story of classic simplicity, based on a Mexican folk tale, The Pearl explores the secrets of man's nature, greed, the darkest depths of evil, and the luminous possibilities of love.

In Spark of Life, a powerful classic from the renowned author of All Quiet on the Western Front, one man’s dream of freedom inspires a valiant resistance against the Nazi war machine. For ten years, 509 has been a political prisoner in a German concentration camp, persevering in the most hellish conditions. Deathly weak, he still has his wits about him and he senses that the end of the war is near. If he and the other living corpses in his barracks can hold on for liberation—or force their own—then their suffering will not have been in vain. Now the SS who run the camp are ratcheting up the terror. But their expectations are jaded and their defenses are down. It is possible that the courageous yet terribly weak prisoners have just enough left in them to resist. And if they die fighting, they will die on their own terms, cheating the Nazis out of their devil’s contract. “The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure.”— The New York Times Book Review